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Podcast: Stalin 1928-1941
Podcast
On 15th November Dr Jane McDermid gave the first lecture in the HA's Sixth Form Lecture Series on the making of the Stalinist State at the National Archives, Kew. Click on the following links below to listen to her lecture and read the lecture notes!
Podcast: Stalin 1928-1941
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Russia & the USSR
Links to Articles & Podcasts
USSR
An HA Podcasted History of the USSR
Stalinism
Between the Revolutions
Nazism and Stalinism – suitable case for comparison?
Stalin 6th form podcast
Stalin, Propaganda, and Soviet Society during the Great Terror
After the Uprising of 1956: Hungarian Students in Britain
Russia & the USSR
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The Normans
Links to Articles & Podcasts
Norman Conquest
The Origins of the Norman Conquest
The Norman Conquest: why did it matter? KeynoteSpeech from the Historical Association 2013 Annual Conference - Podcast
1066: The Limits of our Knowledge
Edward the Confessor and the Norman Conquest
The strange death of King Harold II: Propaganda and the problem of...
The Normans
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Teaching Gypsy, Roma and Traveller history
Article
Gypsy, Roma and Traveller people are the largest minority ethnic group in some communities (and therefore in some schools) in the UK. Yet the past of Gypsy, Roma, Traveller people may rarely be part of history lessons. The result is that pupils of Gypsy, Roma and Traveller heritage may not...
Teaching Gypsy, Roma and Traveller history
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Podcast Series: Early Modern Ireland
Multipage Article
This series of podcasts featuring Professor Sean Connolly and Professor David Hayton of Queen's University Belfast looks at Irish History from 1500-1800. Topics covered include Tudor Ireland, the Eleven Years War, Restoration Ireland, the significance of the reigns of James II and William III and politics in Ireland during the...
Podcast Series: Early Modern Ireland
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Podcast Series: Britain's Changing Population
Podcasted history
In Part 3 of our series on Social and Political Change in the UK we look at diversity in the UK and examine African and Caribbean UK History, South Asian UK History and British Chinese History.
The first set of podcasts feature Dr Hakim Adi, Marika Sherwood, Dr Sumita Mukherjee & Dr...
Podcast Series: Britain's Changing Population
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GCSE topics mapped against our resources
HA Resources and GCSE History
At the HA, we know it’s hard enough trying to grapple with new GCSE units of study, assessment and content without also having to research where you can find interesting or supportive resources, either for your own, or your students subject knowledge. Our secondary committee have pooled resources and helped...
GCSE topics mapped against our resources
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Podcast Series: Modern Irish History
Modern Irish History
An HA Podcasted Series on Modern Irish History featuring Professor Peter Gray, Dr Fearghal McGarry & Dr Stuart Aveyard of Queen's University of Belfast and Dr Matthew Kelly of the University of Southampton.
Podcast Series: Modern Irish History
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Podcast Series: Britain's Cold War
Multipage Article
In this set of podcasts our author Dr Helen Parr examines Britain's role in the Cold War. Katharine Hudson, General Secretary of CND, looks at the history of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) in Britain.
Podcast Series: Britain's Cold War
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Podcast Series: British LGBTQ+ History
Multipage Article
In Part 4 of our series on Social and Political Change in the UK since 1800 we focus on UK LGBTQ+ History. This series of podcasts features Dr Matt Cook and Dr Sean Brady of Birkbeck, University of London, Professor Sally R Munt of the University of Sussex and Dr Emma Vickers...
Podcast Series: British LGBTQ+ History
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Podcast Series: Politics, Reform and War
Multipage Article
In the first part of this series we look at UK political history, political reform and the domestic impact of the World Wars.
This series features Professor Eric Evans, Professor Stanley Henig, Professor Richard Grayson, Professor Keith Laybourn, Dr Daniel Todman and Dr Helen Parr.
Also in the series: The Women's Movement, Religion in the...
Podcast Series: Politics, Reform and War
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Podcast Series: The Spanish Golden Age
Multipage Article
An HA Podcasted History of the Spanish Golden Age featuring Dr Glyn Redworth of Manchester University and Dr Francois Soyer of the University of Southampton.
Podcast Series: The Spanish Golden Age
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Podcast Series: The Rise of an Islamic Civilisation
Early Islam
An HA Podcasted History of the Rise of an Islamic Civilisation featuring Dr Caroline Goodson of Birkbeck, University of London.
Podcast Series: The Rise of an Islamic Civilisation
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Film: What a strange place to be buried
Virtual Branch Film
Anna Cusack joined the HA Virtual Branch to discuss unique burial locations in London c.1600-1800. Anna recently completed a PhD at Birkbeck, University of London on the marginal dead of seventeenth and eighteenth-century London, focusing specifically on suicides, executed criminals, Quakers, and Jews and the treatment of their bodily remains...
Film: What a strange place to be buried
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Podcast: Why Medieval History Matters?
Medieval History
Why Medieval History Matters, Professor Anne Curry, President of the HA ‘I don't mind there being some medievalists around for ornamental purposes, but there is no reason for the state to pay for them'. So, allegedly, said Charles Clarke when Education Secretary in 2003. In fact, medieval history has never...
Podcast: Why Medieval History Matters?
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Charles I, Civil War and Restoration England
Links to Articles & Podcasts
Presidential Lecture - Charles I: The People's Martyr?
King Charles I
The Personal Rule of Charles I 1629-40
Polychronichon – interpreting the revolution of 1688
Cunning Plan
King Charles II
Jacobinism
The Jacobites
Oliver Cromwell
HA Podcasts: From James to Anne
Charles I, Civil War and Restoration England
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Podcast Series: Pearson Edexcel Migrants in Britain
Multipage Article
The Pearson Edexcel thematic study Migrants in Britain, c800-present, gives students an overview of how Britain has been shaped by its migrant communities over a long period of time. At its heart, the Migrants in Britain study is the story of changes in the nation’s context that encouraged, enabled, necessitated...
Podcast Series: Pearson Edexcel Migrants in Britain
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Podcast Series: The French Revolution to the Fall of Napoleon
The French Revolution
In this set of podcasts we look at the origins and the development of the French Revolution, the rise and fall of Napoleon, the Peninsular War and the Battle of Waterloo.
These podcasts feature: Professor David Andress, Emeritus Professor Malcom Crook, Emertius Professor William Doyle, Emeritus Professor Alan Forrest &...
Podcast Series: The French Revolution to the Fall of Napoleon
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Podcast series: Politics in England Through Time
Politics in England through Time
In this set of podcasts we look at how power and politics have changed in England from the Iron Age to the twentieth century.
Podcast series: Politics in England Through Time
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Podcast series: Religion in England Through Time
Religion through Time
This set of podcasts looks at religion in England from the ancient to the modern world and features: Professor Ronald Hutton of the University of Bristol, Professor Joanna Story of the University of Leicester, Professor Nicholas Vincent of the University of East Anglia, Dr Steven Gunn of the University of...
Podcast series: Religion in England Through Time
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Elizabethan England
Links to Articles & Podcasts
Polychronichon – interpreting Elizabeth I
How Glorious was Gloriana?
Elizabeth I and II comparison
Women in Britain1500-1700
Revising the Elizabethans
Elizabethan England
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Henry VIII and Ministers
Links to Articles & Podcasts
Henry VIII
Faction in Tudor England
The Tudors podcasted series
Tudor government
Henry VIII and Ministers
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King John and Magna Carta
Links to Articles & Podcasts
Magna Carta: oblivion and revival
Magna Carta and the Origins of Parliament
King John
King John and Magna Carta (Part 1)
King John and Magna Carta (Part 2)
King John and Magna Carta
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Edward I
Links to Articles & Podcasts
The Nation of the Scots and the Declaration of Arbroath
The Scottish Wars of Independence
Edward I: Relations between England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland
Edward I: Law and State
Edward I
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International relations
Links to Articles & Podcasts
An HA Podcasted History: The Cold War
The Road to World War II
The World War I peace treaties
The League of Nations
International relations
